Euro-Zone Economic Worries Intensify

By

Ilona Billington

Updated Feb. 13, 2013 8:39 a.m. ET

LONDON—Industrial production in the euro zone fell at its sharpest quarterly rate in more than three years at the end of last year, despite rising in December, stoking fears of a third consecutive quarterly economic contraction.

But data released on Wednesday suggested the euro-zone economy reached a low point in November and could be showing early signs of recovery, as production in Germany, the currency bloc's biggest single...